Through a video released on social networks, it is observed when an individual records the criminal scene firing his weapons at point blank range once morest his victims, who would be members of the Wayuú ethnic group, and later fled in a truck to an unknown destination.
It is number 20 so far in 2022, following armed individuals entered a house in the Pastrana neighborhood, in the municipality of Maicao, in La Guajira, and murdered three people.
In addition, according to several versions of local media, the perpetrators of the criminal act would be the dangerous criminal gang already known in the recording that has gone viral, a very clear message is heard, “This is from Yeico Masacre.”
Alex Chasin, Bernardo Zambrano and Aristóbulo Zambrano lost their lives in the multiple homicide. The latter was taken from the emergency room to the Asocabildos clinic but despite the work of the doctors, he died.
According to witnesses to the event, there were two armed individuals who arrived at the building where they shot the three men present at the scene on several occasions, leaving one of the victims seriously injured.
Apparently it would be a reckoning of drug gangs. The crime occurred at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, March 1, on Calle 24 with Carrera 26 in the Pastrana neighborhood.
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The authorities advance in the investigation to find the whereregardings of the authors of the triple homicide, in an event that constitutes the first reported massacre of the year in that department.
The Institute of Studies for Development and Peace (Indepaz) of Colombia recalled that the Ombudsman’s Office had already warned of criminal acts by armed groups in Maicao.
